a productive pen

Here are some cool resources that writers might find useful that I thought I’d share that I’ve been collecting for the past few weeks. The first two I learned about on Stephen Pierce’s DT Alpha Talk Back podcast. It’s one of my fave new personal development/online business podcasts. Go take a look at serph.com, where they promise to “track buzz in real time.” It’s a good place to find out who’s talking about what online. Another cool place to check out is surchur.com. This is a social media meta search that returns links to videos, pictures, news, blog posts on current topics online.
One final thing I’d like to share is a link to a fabulous freelance writing newsletter that I have subscribed to for ages. It’s called “Writing Etc.” by Beth Ann Erickson. Through that newsletter I joined her private writer’s group called the Creative Mindset community. Last night we had a conference call with the group which was just amazing. It was a group of other freelancers talking about what we do, sharing ideas and resources and just supporting each other. Here’s a link to a site with lots of cool resources for online writers that Joyce, a member of our group shared: “50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers.”

Writing is such a solitary endeavor, so it’s nice to have a master mind group to bounce ideas off of and learn from.

I’ve been writing and trying to keep up with deadlines and keep my clients happy while I cook up some other projects on the side burner. School is drawing to a close for my young ones. Thing Two is wrapping up fourth grade and will be starting at a new school next year, and Thing Three will be transitioning from Kindergarten to first grade and she will also be moving to a new school. So, we have many changes in store in our lives coming up. But change is the essence of life, and that is the only way to move forward.

Keep on writing.